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Five opposition politicians and activists have been released from prison after the resumption of talks between the Venezuelan government and the US-backed right-wing sector this week. Opposition’s chief negotiator Gerardo Blyde broke the news on Wednesday night by posting a picture on X with journalist and Popular Will (VP) party member Roland Carreño, who had been detained since October 2020 on charges of conspiracy, terrorism financing, money laundering, weapons trafficking and association to commit a crime. According to Venezuela’s Attorney General’s Office, Carreño had diverted thousands of US dollars from the Simón Bolívar Foundation, the charitable program of Venezuela’s US-based oil subsidiary CITGO, to four major opposition parties. In 2019, the US government put CITGO under the control of the self-proclaimed “interim government” led by Juan Guaidó. https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-authorities-release-jailed-opposition-activists-govt-hints-at-us-diplomat-visit/